AU, based on the Cupid and Psyche myth. How different would the world be if Surak's influence had never spread, if the Awakening had never happened, if Vulcans had never sought to control their emotions? It's the Federation, Jim, but not as we know it.

Spock/Chapel. Mature Content. Some time after being blinded on the Enterprise, when Spock arrives to visit his parents on Vulcan he does not expect to be plunged into talks at the Science Academy that are rapidly becoming violent.

Spock remembered far too well the first night he heard Jim's mental voice - close to dawn on a dreamless night and he was pulled away from his bed, to a dark, alien kitchen and a terrified, alien mind.

Spock discovers that navigating a relationship with a Human woman is more complicated than he expected. Particularly since the Human woman in question is still a cadet, and Spock has a Vulcan fiancée waiting in the wings.

AU, Kirk/Spock preferred, if possible. Spock grows up on Earth, and is conflicted about his mixed heritage, and what he wants to do with his life. So after he finishes his basic education he decides to go traveling around the Federation to discover what t